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TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN

From Objection!!! by Illona Gaynor. A contemporary court of law is a literal demonstration of legal-theatre. It is often spatially laid out with strict rules and acute awareness of sightlines, with participation, and an audience situated in it’s viewing gallery, much like the broadcasting constructs of a television show. Rhetoric is a discipline that isContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN”

TWO HUNDRED AND NINE

From How to Construct a Time Machine, at MK Gallery. (via happyfamousartists). The show’s title is taken from an 1899 text by the avant-garde French writer, Alfred Jarry, written in direct response to H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel The Time Machine (1895). Wells invented and popularised a distinctively modern, fictional concept of time travel, with the time machine asContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND NINE”

TWO HUNDRED

From Beautiful Decay on McCharen and Chromat’s Bionic Bodies. “Their new line was called Bionic Bodies, inspired by a love story McCharen envisioned between a human and a robot. The result? Bodies scaffolded like bionic arms and exoskeletons, chromed ribcages studded at the seams, and, most strikingly, faces and bras illuminated with blue LEDs. WhenContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED”